Black Eyed Susan's - Watercolor Class

Today's subject in watercolor class was Black Eyed Susan's.  Here are two of my simple composition demonstrations for Black Eyed Susan's:




This version of the same flower was painted on a blank greeting card. 



This is a sketchbook painting of a Black Eyed Susan using a limited pallete of secondary colors orange, green and purple. 

Watercolor Fundamentals Painting Demonstrations

The theme for our first class of Fall Semester at Clark College was Primary Color, red, yellow and blue.

 

 I used this painting of a rooster to demonstrate how the use of pure primary colors, applied directly to the paper without mixing,  creates vibrancy and strength.  Notice where the paint in the shadow where the colors mingled there is less vibrancy of color. 

 (This painting was inspired by a painting by Pat Weaver)

The second week the theme was:

•  Secondary Colors (Orange, Purple and Green),
•  positive and negative shapes
•  and creating a color wash

This is the painting I demonstrated, Shades of Sunset.

 

I first created a orange color wash over the entire piece of Arches 140 cold press paper.  When the wash was completely dry I did several washes of purple to create the diffused clouds in the distance.  Next was the tree concentrating on making interesting positive and negative shapes and varying the value of purple in the craggy tree.  The last step was the foreground using purple and green to create the deep ground color. 

Third Class - Still life - concentrating on form shadows and cast shadows.